Jiaoxi
Jiaoxi, also called Chiaohsi, is located in the northeast part of Yilan County, Taiwan. The newly completed Hsuehshan tunnel has shortened the traveling time and distance to get to Jiaoxi.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 35,900 residents
- Description: A rural township in Yilan County, Taiwan
- Also known as: “Chiao-ch’i”, “Chiao-ch’i-ts’un”, “Chiao-hsi”, “Chiao-hsi-ts’un”, “Chiaohsi”, “Jiaosi”, “Jiaoxi Township”, “Jiaoxi, Yilan”, “Jiaushi”, and “Jyausyi”
- Neighbors: Pinglin, Toucheng, Wulai, Yilan, and Yuanshan
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chiao-hsi Railway Station and Wufengqi Waterfall.
Chiao-hsi Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: Wtor2805, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jiaoxi is a railway station on the Taiwan Railways Administration Yilan line. It is located in Jiaoxi Township, Yilan County, Taiwan.
Wufengqi Waterfall
Waterfall
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Wufengqi Waterfalls are a popular tourist attraction located in the Wufengqi Scenic Area in Jiaoxi Township, Yilan County, Taiwan. They are so named because they stand in front of a row of five steep mountains, whose sharp peaks resemble the five triangular flags hanging down the back of war generals in Chinese opera.
Jiaoxi Xietian Temple
Place of worship
Photo: Outlookxp, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jiaoxi Xietian Temple is a place of worship.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Toucheng.
Toucheng
Photo: Taiwankengo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Toucheng Township is an urban township in Yilan County, Taiwan. The township includes Guishan Island and Guiluan Island in the Philippine Sea. The Senkaku Islands, known in Mandarin as the Diaoyu Islands, are claimed as part of the township.
Jiaoxi
- Categories: township of Taiwan and locality
- Location: Yilan County, Taiwan Province, Eastern Taiwan, Taiwan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
24.8236° or 24° 49′ 25″ northLongitude
121.7713° or 121° 46′ 17″ eastPopulation
35,900Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)Open location code
7QP3RQFC+FGOpenStreetMap ID
node 60655722OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1678716Wikidata ID
Q706720
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Yue Chinese—“Jiaoxi” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Jiaoxi Xiang”
- Chinese: “Ta-khe-hiong”
- Chinese: “旱坑”
- Chinese: “礁坑”
- Chinese: “礁溪”
- Chinese: “礁溪乡”
- Chinese: “礁溪鄉”
- Danish: “Jiaoxi”
- Dutch: “Jiaoxi”
- French: “Jiaoxi”
- German: “Jiaoxi”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tsiâu-hâi-hiông”
- Italian: “Jiaoxi”
- Japanese: “礁渓郷 (台湾)”
- Japanese: “礁渓郷”
- Korean: “자오시향”
- Ladin: “Jiaoxi”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ta-khe-hiang”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ta-khe-hiong”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ta-khe”
- Russian: “Цзяоси”
- Vietnamese: “Tiêu Khê, Nghi Lan”
- Vietnamese: “Tiêu Khê”
- Yue Chinese: “礁溪鄉”
- “礁溪鄉”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Jiaoxi”. Photo: lienyuan lee, CC BY 3.0.